Quotes About Maturity

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

Intendo dire", disse Alice, "che uno non può fare a meno di crescere." "Uno forse non può", disse Humpty Dumpty, "ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.

the English novel is childish because what is desired is not maturity and wisdom but a return to the safety and innocence of childhood—

I mean, she said that one can't help growing older. One can't perhaps, said Humpty Dumpty but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

When did you become a cynic?" Sam asked. Evie smiled. "When I found out I was a little girl.

God wants us to focus on becoming like Christ, on shaping our character into His image.

He was a man. He should have acted more like one - thought about how all that self-indulgence might affect his daughter, if not his wife.

In the course of my fifty-six years I have had dealings with thousands of men of all sorts and conditions. I no longer have any curiosity about people.

If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.